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oilyness

oilyness is the alternative spelling of oiliness.

Meaning of oiliness

Noun

oiliness (usually uncountable, plural oilinesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of being oily.
    • During his retirement, Deeley devised a method for testing the oiliness of lubricants, which he communicated to the Physical Society in 1919; […].1944 September and October, “The Late R. M. Deeley”, in Railway Magazine, page 266

Forms of oilyness

pluraloilynesses

Origin of oilyness

From oily + -ness.

Questions about oilyness

What is oilyness the alternative spelling of?
Oilyness is the alternative spelling of oiliness.

Words near oilyness in the dictionary

  1. oily rags
  2. oily rice
  3. oily-wad
  4. oily-wads
  5. oilyish
  6. oilyness
  7. OIML
  8. Oina
  9. Oinam
  10. Oinamcha
  11. oink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oilyness (page history and authors); oiliness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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